Re: 10 NOTORIOUS DARWINIST FABRICATIONS

John Harshman wrote:
> Keith H Duggar wrote:
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>>Sorry, which "the tree" are you referring to? As you know
>>systematics then you know that haplotype data does not fix a
>>unique "the tree". Depending on various assumptions, there
>>is an exponential number of possible trees each compatible
>>with the data to varying degree, again depending on various
>>assumptions, weight assignments, etc. Also, I'm not sure
>>what you mean by "lie outside the tree" since under the
>>usual assumptions of unknown internal nodes, etc any set of
>>haplotype data can be placed into, as I said, an exponential
>>number of trees.
>
>
> If you know of any study that has produced a tree, however partially
> resolved and using any algorithm, on which neanderthal sequences and H.
> sapiens sequences are not reciprocally monophyletic, cite it here. I
> don't. It's not necessary to have a single tree; what's necessary is
> that they all agree on that one branch, the one separating neanderthal
> sequences from all others.

Haplotype trees doesn't coalesce?

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John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com
"Darwin's theory has no more to do with philosophy than any other
hypothesis in natural science." Tractatus 4.1122

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